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Analysis of the HPV Challenge: Industry Violations and EPA Negligence
By Nicole Cardello, M.H.S. Executive Summary The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) High Production Volume (HPV) Challenge encourages chemical companies to volunteer to conduct screening-level animal toxicity tests on 2,800 industrial chemicals. Pursuant to this program, companies have committed to |
Testimony on High Production Volume Chemical Tests to the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
Neal D. Barnard, M.D. June 17, 1999 As a physician and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, I would like to thank Chairman Calvert and the members of the Committee for the opportunity to comment on the EPA’s High Production Volume Challenge program. We are greatly concerned about seve |
The Origin of U.S. Dietary Guidelines
Current U.S. dietary policies still reflect the basic design of the food guides from the early part of this century. In 1894, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed the first food composition tables and dietary standards for Americans. In 1916, the first daily food guides appeared in U |
Good Medicine Archive
2011 Issues Ivy League Animal Cruelty: PCRM Uncovers Shocking Animal Cruelty at Nation's Top Schools Good Medicine Autumn 2011 Vol. XX, No. 3 |
The Availability of HPV Chemical Data
In early October 1998, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the High Production Volume (HPV) Chemical Challenge program, calling for toxicity testing on 2,800 chemicals imported or manufactured in amounts over one million pounds per year. This program was apparently devised in closed-door meetings betwee |
Action Alert: Contact the FDA About Animal Testing
Every day, thousands of animals are experimented on and killed to create and test drugs, many of which will never help a sick human being. That’s why PCRM and an international coalition of scientists, doctors, and animal-protection organizations filed the Mandatory Alternatives Petition with the U.S. Food and |
Action Alert: Contact the FDA About Animal Testing
Every day, thousands of animals are experimented on and killed to create and test drugs, many of which will never help a sick human being. That’s why PCRM and an international coalition of scientists, doctors, and animal-protection organizations filed the Mandatory Alternatives Petition with the U.S. Food and |
PCRM Takes the EPA to Court
PCRM has gone to court to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from launching yet another massive animal testing program, one even bigger than the controversial High Production Volume Program and Voluntary Children's Chemical Evaluation Program. This latest catastrophe, the Endocrine Disr |
Al Gore’s Deadly Animal Test Plan and the Scientist Who Can Stop It
After his plan to resume whaling and his massive pig farm bailout, the vice president’s new plan to kill 800,000 animals in pointless tests may be his worst yet. In the early months of 1999, while the nation’s attention was focused on President Clinton’s problems, Vice President Al Gor |
Action Alert: Contact the FDA About Animal Testing
Every day, thousands of animals are experimented on and killed to create and test drugs, many of which will never help a sick human being. That’s why PCRM and an international coalition of scientists, doctors, and animal-protection organizations filed the Mandatory Alternatives Petition with the U.S. Food and |
Monkey-Breeding Facility Sparks International Outcry
This summer, PCRM joined an international coalition taking a stand against the construction of a massive primate-breeding facility in Puerto Rico. On July 22, representatives from PCRM, the Puerto Rico Bar Association, and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection held a news conference asking Gov. Luis |
New Society Promotes Nonanimal Chemical Testing
PCRM and the Institute for In Vitro Sciences Inc. have formed a new scientific society to promote nonanimal toxicological testing methods. This is the first scientific society in North America devoted to such a mission. Through regular meetings and activities, the American Society for Cellular and Computational |
Bizarre Government Animal Tests to Set
© 2000, PHOTODISC In April 1997, President Clinton issued an Executive Order to protect children from harmful substances in air, food, or water. By the end of 1999, however, Vice President Gore had effectively scuttled that initiative in a deal cut with the agency that was to carry it out. As a r |
PCRM Files New Petition with the EPA Against Cruel Animal Tests
Japanese quail, one of many types of animals slated for EPA testing. In January, PCRM petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to limit the scope o |
Innovative Companies Create Nonanimal Skin Test
Innovative Companies Create Nonanimal Skin Test By Chad B. Sandusky, Ph.D., and Nancy Beck, Ph.D. The biotechnology company Hurel and the global cosmetics giant L’Oréal have teamed up to develop a nonanimal method for testing products for allergic reactions. The new patent-pending technology, Allerg |
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